What If

Chapter 5

Lauren

Brantley breaks every traffic law known to man as he races to South Med. This is not how I wanted my night to go. I'm sure paparazzi will be waiting for us at the hospital, which I don't want to deal with tonight. I was right, as soon as they got Kane unloaded and taken back, people started going crazy which made me even more overwhelmed than I already was.

"Ya'll we don't have time to answer your questions, when we know more we'll contact you but in the meantime please us alone," Brantley speaks

I've been hiding behind him the entire time and finally move once everyone leaves. I sit down in one of the hard plastic chairs and drop my head into my hands. I sense B crouching down in front of me.

"He's gonna be ok," B tells me

"But we don't know that what if he's not fine and I have to do this all on my own, what if I have to go back to Jack and he kills me," I panic

"Sweet girl, don't worry about all the what-ifs right now, and no we don't know if's gonna be ok, but we just have to have some faith, it's Kane and he would never leave you unless god takes him out in some freak accident," B tells me

He gets up and sits next to me and I move to sit on his lap for comfort. We're there for 6 hours before we hear anything about Kane's condition and after lots of tears and lots of coffee, the doctor finally comes out. We both stand up.

"It was touch and go for a while and we lost him twice but he pulled through. He is in critical condition in the ICU and in a medically induced coma to allow him to heal, and that's all we know right now, I can take y'all back to see him now," The doctor tells us

We follow the doctor down several hallways until we reach Kane's room. Brantley goes in first and I follow.

"You guys can stay as long as you need to," The doctor says and walks away